incredible to me that the russos looked at one of the greatest villains in all of comics and were like this villain origin story that made him so iconic? lame as hell. let’s hit him with the sadman deadwife deadbaby special
Some interesting gender politics at play behind this, I'd say. A father and husband losing his family is assumed to be a more tragic and noble motivating force than a son losing his mother. I'll reserve any judgement on how this theme is handled but my money is on Not Well!
I knew this was coming but to be clear: I think that it’s very understandable and common mistake for writers to treat Doom as a complex noble demon with tragedy and grand motivations because he is but the meat is that’s what he APPEARS to be. The man is much more pathetic
Non-Romani Doom whose dynamic with Reed is barely featured and was apparently a nice lovely man before his wife and son were killed (rumored to be because of the actions of Steve Rogers) making him evil.
But sure, “properly”
mcu fans will look you dead in the eye and say “cry more buddy doomsday is making 2 billion” yeah man poop is getting thirty wipes doesn’t change the fact that it was a poop
Doing this about the character whose entire driving force is that he lost his mother...wow. Then again, his mom also died fighting for her oppressed people, and ofc the whitewashed RJDoom wouldn't have that story. Ugh
this is hilarious. no big deal. doom’s only got some of the most famous mommy issues in all of comics. his entire reason for villainy has been laid out for like 65 years between his mother and reed richards. but they decided to invent a child for him to be mad about
I like that this is supposed to make him more interesting and “less lame” than him wanting his mom back when this is just every other supervillain’s motivation. This is nothing new. Thanos’s motivations weren’t exactly a unique change either but again, at least he had build up.
You can REALLY tell that they’re hard swerving into badass tragic monster Doom and are terrified of him being motivated by something like petty ego or vanity because of his face lol
that shot of thor running being so good out of context and then finding out that it’s literally in the movie for shots and giggles and has no narrative importance at all
Literally what Batman V Superman was and it was a disaster. We are still dealing with the consequences of it a decade later. You can blame Batman and Superman movies not being able to hit a billion dollars now on that movie.
People always cut out the bit after where he says "I hope one day you realize it's yours too." That's why he's saying all of this. After everything Lex put him through in this movie, he STILL tries to reach him. That's Superman